PUBLICATIONS AND WRITING PROJECTS

Published in 2010
“Sore feet and a rested soul.” Rev. of Rooster in the Cathedral, by Paul Myers. Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC: Shoreline Press, 2009. On Paul Myers’ website,

Rev. of The Bishop’s Man, by Linden MacIntyre. Toronto: Random House, 2009. Anglican Journal 136.2 (February 2010) 11.

"Is criticism of Israel Anti-Semitic?” Topic 41.1 (January 2010) 7.

"Angli/can or Angli/can't?" Topic 41.6 (Summer) 7.


Published in 2009
"Monastic in his [own] way’: Thomas Merton and Leonard Cohen,” The Merton Seasonal 34.3 (Fall 2009) 3-9

Rev. of Thomas Merton - In My Own Words, ed. Jonathan Montaldo, in The Merton Annual, v. 21, ed. David Belcastro and Gray Matthews (Louisville, KY: Fons Vitae) 281-82.

Published in 2008
"In the Footsteps of Thomas Merton: Asia," in The Merton Seasonal, ed. Patrick O'Connell (33.4, Winter 2008) 21-28.

"Week of a Stranger: Thomas Merton Bibliographic Review 2006," in The Merton Annual, v. 20, ed. Victor Kramer (Louisville, KY: Fons Vitae) 299-340.

"The Polygamy Problem," rev. of The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brides and Lost Boys in Canada's Polygamous Mormon Sect, by Daphne Bramham, in The Vancouver Sun (March 29, 2008) D10.

Published in 2007
Rev. of Thomas Merton: An Introduction, by William H. Shannon. Victor Kramer, ed., The Merton Annual (Louisville: Fons Vitae) 410-13.

Published in 2006
"Pastoral Care in the 21st Century,” in Michael Schwartzentruber, ed., The Emerging Christian Way (Kelowna, BC: Wood Lake/Copperhouse) 219-32.

"Pilgrimage - it takes time," in Topic (September) 1. See also

Published in 2004
"Finding ‘the great compassion, mahakaruna’: Thomas Merton as Trans-cultural Pioneer,” in Angus Stuart, ed., The World in My Bloodstream: Thomas Merton’s Universal Embrace. Papers from the 2002 Oakham Conference of the Thomas Merton Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Abergavenny, Wales: Three Peaks Press) 54-65.

Published in 2003
"Thomas Merton, the Holocaust and the Eclipse of Difference,” in Beatrice Bruteau, ed., Merton and Judaism: Holiness in Words / Recognition, Repentance and Renewal (Louisville: Fons Vitae) 83-103. (See also Karl A. Plank, “An Open Letter to Donald Grayston,” 105-08.)

"Antisemitism in a Russian spiritual classic: The Pilgrim’s Tale.” Spiritus 3, 110-26 (article accessible at ).

"Thomas Merton: Spiritual Fake?” rev. of The Death of Thomas Merton: A Novel, by Paul Hourihan.The Merton Seasonal 28.4 (Winter) 25-26.

Works in progress
“Thomas Merton’s Roses: The Camaldoli Correspondence and the Search for Solitude.” An article first, then a book on Merton’s attempts in the mid-1950s to obtain an authorized transfer from the Abbey of Gethsemani to the Sacro Eremo (the hermit village) of the Monastery of Camaldoli in Italy.

"Jesus Lama: Thomas Merton in Asia." Popular book based on my 2000-01 retracing of Merton's journey of 1968.

"Beyond the Shadow and the Disguise: A Companion to Thomas Merton's Asian Journal. Academic book aimed at making The Asian Journal more accessible.

An article, so far untitled, using Arthur Cohen’s hermeneutic (in The Tremendum) of subscension for a reading of Anne Michaels’ Fugitive Pieces

“Stranger, bystander, marginal man: exile and homecoming in Thomas Merton”—written version of presentations for the Thomas Merton Society of Great Britain and Ireland (2004), the Thomas Merton Society of Canada (2006) and Spiritual Directors International (2007).

"The Holy Man: Conversations with a Painting, in Search of the Father.”
The painting in question is my personal icon, a reproduction of which you will find on the home page.


 

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